- Title: USA: MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART OPENS AT NEW YORK'S GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM.
- Date: 10th February 1998
- Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 10, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV: EXTERIORS OF GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (3 SHOTS) 0.07 2. GV/TILT: INTERIOR GUGGENHEIM WITH PAN DOWN FROM CEILING 0.15 3. GV: WIDE SHOT OF TERRACOTTA WARRIORS 0.16 4. CU/TILT: CLOSE UP WARRIOR, PAN DOWN 0.25 5. CU: CLOSE UP ELEVEN HEADED MARBLE AVAOLKITESVARA FROM TANG DYNASTY. 0.30 6. MV: MARBLE BODHISATTVA TORSO FROM TANG DYNASTY. 0.34 7. CU/PAN: FIRST CALLIGRAPHY ROLL, 1500'S - MING DYNASTY. 0.47 8. CU: JANE DEBVOISE, PROJECT DIRECTOR, GUGGEINHEIM MUSEUM SAYING "THIS EXHIBITION IS THE FIRST MAJOR MUSEUM EXHIBITION THAT UNITES BOTH TRADITIONAL AND MODERN ART. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME EXHIBITIONS OF SOME ASPECTS OF MODERN CHINESE ART. BUT ALSO THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION OF MODERN CHINESE ART IN A MAJOR MUSEUM IN THE WEST. SO THIS COMBINING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN AND ALSO THIS VERY SYSTEMATIC LOOK AT THE MODERN PERIOD SETS OUR EXHIBITION VERY MUCH APART FROM OTHER EXHIBITIONS" (ENGLISH) 1.26 9. GV: WIDE SHOT OF ART FROM QING DYNASTY 1.32 10. MV: CLOSE UP PEOPLE LOOKING AT ART 1.36 11. GV: TWO VASES FROM QIN DYNASTY, FIRST TIME IN U.S., ON LOAN FROM PALACE MUSEUM IN BEIJING. 1.43 12. CU: CLOSE UP OF QIN VASE 1.46 13. GV: PORCELAIN COVERED YUAN DYNASTY VASE 1.52 14. CU/TILT: CLOSE UP AND PAN DOWN OF YUAN JAR 2.02 15. GV/ZOOM/CU: MING DYNASTY VASE (ON LOAN FROM BEIJING) 2.21 16. CU/TILT/CU: TANG DYNASTY FIGURE, PAN DOWN/ ANOTHER FIGURE (2 SHOTS) 2.39 17. GV/CU: WIDE SHOT OF DIPLAY OF FIGURES/ CLOSE UP HORSE HEAD (2 SHOTS) 2.49 18. GV/CU: MODERN OIL WORK (2 SHOTS) 2.55 19. GV: WIDE SHOT DISPLAY WITH CHILD LOOKING. 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Story Text: One of the largest and most impressive exhibitions of Chinese art has opened in New York.Included are around 500 masterworks from China from 3000 B.C.to the modern era.
Unparalleled in scope, the Guggenheim Museum on Tuesday (February 10) unveiled its landmark exhibition presenting around 500 masterworks from the People's Republic of China The exhibition features artworks ranging in date from 3,000 B.C.to the modern era, including recent archaeological discoveries to large-scale stone Buddhist sculptures and rare 12th century landscape paintings.
Assembled from more than fifty lenders in seventeen provinces in China, many of these works have never been seen in the West.
"China: 5,000 Years" explores the themes of innovation and transformation during the great eras of Chinese art, and is the first major museum exhibition to unite traditional and modern Chinese art.
The show opens with the dramatic sight of the terracotta warriors, accompanied by a magnificent horse from an imperial tomb of the Qin Dynasty dated 221 B.C.
Jade and bronzes follow on to a magnificent array of porcelain vases and jars including one on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing never seen in the West before.
The exhibition will remain on show at the Guggenheim until the end of May 1998.
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